#soil leaf root

Some of the year’s most unique releases appear here, including the sounds of Middle Eastern street protests, traditional Crimean song, diamond on disputed mud and a seminal field recording series.  Some of these artists record in perfect freedom and peace; others operate amid airstrikes and blackouts.  Despite their different timbres, they are united by their love for experimentation and their…

To whom does land belong?  This simple question lies at the root of many of the world’s problems: border disputes, genocide, war.  When one orders a physical copy of this cassette, one receives a sample of land, as the cloth is dyed in mud from Harare, which was once called Salisbury when it was occupied by British South Africa, a problematic name to say the least.  The mud was taken from the…